CSGM - Chapter 97
Chapter 97: Striking the Soul
Suddenly, the atmosphere in the entire venue seemed to change.
The moment Chu Xi's ten long, slender fingers began to dance wantonly across the keys, the moment the notes flowed from her fingertips like a clear spring, the prelude to South of the Yangtze was stretched infinitely by the wind, filling every corner of the venue.
As the piano sounded, the melody hummed, like a gust of wind from a Jiangnan water town, instantly rushing forward and brushing past their ears!
The listeners' hearts trembled. The rustling conversations in the audience immediately ceased, as if they feared the noise of their own voices would cause them to miss out on appreciating this piece.
Melodies have a three-second principle.
That is, whether or not a melody can capture the listener's ear in the first three seconds determines half of its quality.
It's just like listening to a song. After the first three lines, whether you find it bland and want to skip it immediately, or feel refreshed and full of anticipation for what's to come, is all determined by the face the song presents to the listener at its beginning.
Clearly, Chu Xi's first three seconds had conquered everyone present!
The investors who were looking down at their phones replying to messages stopped. The stars who were quietly gossiping about industry rumors also fell silent.
After catching such a beautiful melody, almost everyone involuntarily turned their gaze to the stage.
To the place where the piano music was coming from.
To the person sitting upright and playing the piano.
The pure, mysterious notes continued to flow. Such a tranquil, graceful, and clear beauty seemed to pierce through their ears with the rise and fall of the tune, striking right at their hearts!
Music has the power to strike the soul. Even without lyrics, Chu Xi was now interpreting this phrase to its fullest.
At this very moment, as the notes poured from her fingertips, she truly possessed the charm to make everyone listen in silence!
During this incomparably elegant performance, many in the audience had already begun to close their eyes to appreciate it.
Why did they have the inexplicable feeling of being in the misty rain of Jiangnan?
Images of soft, fine rain and ink-wash landscapes seemed to materialize in their minds.
-The wind here is sticky, clinging to the thoughts of passersby.
The tune Chu Xi played for this line was lingering and poignant, yet fresh and not cloying, as if it truly wanted to make people drown in it.
-Having you by my side is fate, a fate written on the Three-Life Stone.
For this line, the musical scale descended, yet it remained as poetic and picturesque as a gentle embrace, enveloping one in a warm dream.
In the dream, there seemed to be an ancient love, an innocent boy and girl, an engraved Three-Life Stone, and a cliff where lovers stood against the wind, embracing as they fell.
Such a gentle, lingering melody wound its way through the venue.
Everyone was captivated by the person playing the piano on stage. It was an irresistible charm!
The professional singers watched Chu Xi casually creating on the piano keys, the blazing fire in their eyes almost bright enough to burn their pupils!
Such a unique melody, full of infinite charm-they were fortunate enough to hear it for the first time in their lives, and it was being improvised during a performance segment at tonight's gala!
It truly made one sigh with emotion-a melody like this should only exist in the heavens!
If it also existed in the mortal world, they wished she would sell them the copyright so they could release it as an original.
This piece made many singers think of two words-a massive hit and a career revival.
If they could buy the composition and be the first to release this song... the music industry would surely consecrate it as a legendary track in the future!
And at the venue, the musicians who had produced their own music, along with all the composers, were now looking at Chu Xi with the eyes of hungry wolves.
As if they were looking at their dearest friend in this lifetime!
The appreciation for the music, the admiration for her talent-it was impossible to hide in their eyes.
Perhaps they were skilled in composition and rich in experience, so their years of professional accumulation gave them, as professional composers, a very high baseline; any piece they casually wrote wouldn't sound too bad.
But breaking through their upper limit required waiting for a comet of inspiration to fall before they could write a piece that surpassed themselves and would be remembered in the music world.
But the piece Chu Xi improvised tonight had already challenged the upper limits of most of them!
A piece that lacked nothing in musicality, fluency, gentleness, or artistic conception!
No, it was a piece that was extremely rich in charm, consummately gentle, exquisitely beautiful, and incredibly catchy!
How on earth did she think of it?
Such talent was truly something to be both loved and envied!
To be able to arrange notes into such a combination, and in such a short period of improvisation!
Many composers already felt ashamed of their inferiority.
Could it be that some melodies are heaven-sent, captured only by a stroke of genius?
Is painstaking arrangement merely commercial mass production?
While playing on a whim is the ultimate move!
If they could also produce a piece of the same quality as Chu Xi's improvisation tonight, how valuable would their talent become?
The more one was an insider, the more they knew the difficulty of composing music.
But because of this, they looked at Chu Xi with even greater admiration!
This was the level of someone who claimed to "only know a little" about the piano?!
You mean a billion bits!!!!
Otherwise, how could self-proclaimed professionals like them even live!
Li Xiling was also dumbfounded.
From the moment she heard the first three seconds of the melody, her expression went from stunned to amazed, and the shock in her heart became uncontrollable.
This Chu Xi... she was hiding this deep?
The business tycoons outside the industry didn't understand much, nor did the stars who were full-time actors. They only knew their most direct feeling-
Elegant! Supremely elegant!
It was just too beautiful to listen to!
Incomparably pleasant to the ear!
But the audience hadn't forgotten that the theme of this improvised melody was based on Ren Zhi's outfit for the evening.
At this moment, they looked at Ren Zhi and felt that the melody Chu Xi played was an absolutely perfect match, without the slightest sense of incongruity.
Ren Zhi was like a beautiful goddess smiling quietly where the water meets the sky, her skin snow-white, her features picturesque, her attire refined and elegant.
Pairing such a lingering, gentle, and gradually immersive tune with her felt completely natural!
For a moment, the bright white lights seemed to sprinkle a shimmer on Ren Zhi's delicate shoulders, and the smile on her lips seemed to exude the pure sweetness of a fresh spring in the melody.
After Chu Xi finished playing, she stood up and said:
"It's over."
But for the audience, the music still seemed to linger in the air. They were stunned for a moment before pulling themselves out of the now-finished music and bursting into collective applause!
This improvised performance was unexpectedly beautiful! So pleasant to the ear!
The listeners were already feeling refreshed and delighted.
The host returned to the stage. He didn't just proactively hand the microphone to Chu Xi; his attitude when speaking to her had also changed.
He became more amiable, more respectful.
He, too, had been moved by the melody!
"Wow, that was truly a refreshing surprise! Xixi, that melody... it's not a released piece, is it?" he asked Chu Xi, his heart surging with excitement.
Chu Xi said calmly, "I just thought of it."
The host pressed, "Then have you thought about releasing it, or adding lyrics to make it a complete song?"
The moment he asked this, the musicians below also grew nervous!
If possible, they all wanted to get this piece!
If they couldn't get it, being the original singer would be fine too!
Money was not an issue!
But who would have known, it was a case of unrequited interest.
Chu Xi's voice was calm, and her expression showed no interest.
"No. This melody is just the background music for Miss Ren. I have no other intentions."
Only when she spoke of Ren Zhi and her gaze fell upon her did she offer a faint smile.
She had only recalled this song after seeing Ren Zhi's look tonight. Playing it was one thing, but she had no interest in profiting from something that wasn't truly hers.
"Sigh!" The host let out a sigh.
The singers in the audience also showed looks of regret.
But at the same time, many people were quite envious of Ren Zhi.
As expected, good-looking people really do have privileges!
It wasn't just now; the guests at the Scream Night venue were all marveling at the incredible compatibility between Chu Xi's melody and Ren Zhi's look.
Later that night, when the organizers officially released a clip of Ren Zhi's entrance with the melody dubbed over it, it was praised online as a "match made in heaven" between the person and the music!
Netizens were even falling over themselves to ask: What song is this melody from? What show's BGM is this? Where did it come from?
So urgent! I'm planting myself here and waiting for an answer! Someone please tell me!
It's heavenly music! This answer is very important to them!
Especially the Cheeses, who were completely captivated. They desperately needed to know where this background music that so perfectly suited their beautiful goddess came from!
Chu Xi finally returned to her seat. She told a server she wanted a glass of orange juice, but of course, a peach-flavored drink would be even better.
The server was now very attentive to her, bringing her a peach-flavored fruit drink within two minutes.
Chu Xi stuck a straw in and sipped enjoyably.
With her performance over, Chairman Zhang's daughter, who had just shown a bit of interest in the stage, now found the clumsy performances of the other stars dull and tasteless again.
But her dad-Chairman Zhang, the CEO of Peach Video-was right next to her, insisting that she focus on this boring and time-wasting show. She was so restless she could barely sit still.
Chairman Zhang's daughter thought for a moment, then used the excuse of going to the restroom to slip away to the very back of the venue.
No one would bother her about being on her phone here. It was much freer.
The heiress opened up the I Am the Brain King mini-program competition game again and began to practice with great interest.
It was just that the opponents she was matched with weren't very good. Many of them seemed like they had just entered the mini-program to play casually, with no professional skill at all.
Couldn't this mini-program have some kind of entry barrier?
It should at least have a barrier like an academic or award certification, only letting qualified people participate in the online competition. Otherwise, what were all these duds she was being matched with?
They were ridiculously easy to beat.
While muttering in dissatisfaction, the heiress utterly crushed her noob opponent-she checked her completion score and saw that she had already caught up to many of the contestants from the Brain King show!
Zhou Luyan, who had been roped into coming to tonight's Scream Night and was sitting in the last row due to a personnel change at her company, gazed at the young girl with brown hair and a black dress.
Zhou Luyan knew this was the Peach Video CEO's daughter. Right now, this young lady from a prestigious family was standing just behind and to the side of her.
Zhou Luyan rubbed her hands together, mustered her courage, took the social initiative, and stood up. She walked over to Chairman Zhang's daughter and said softly:
"Miss, I see you've been standing. Do you need a seat? You can sit here."
She pointed to her own seat.
The heiress turned her head to look, then looked back at her and said with a smile, "Thanks."
And then she really did sit down without any ceremony.
After sitting for a moment, she looked at her phone and muttered again, "So weak... Aren't there any skilled opponents?"
Zhou Luyan glanced at her screen. It looked like she was playing some kind of puzzle game.
Speaking of puzzle game masters...
Having been a flying guest on Our Restaurant, in just a few short days, she had become convinced that Chu Xi was definitely an expert at these kinds of games.
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